I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life… it causes them to search a lot more. They search life and search their soul. When you’re searching, you’re suddenly a lot...

What no one really talks about, though, is the main reason many of us fail with our weight loss efforts: our minds won’t let us.

Stay with and pursue your dreams, and history will tell your stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils

Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we’re allowed to explore the side streets.

It’s daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest...

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?”Benedict

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

People say you’re born innocent, but it’s not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can’t wash off....

First find your crown and then wear it, then your crowd will come towards you with ovations

There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don’t believe that anybody in this country who...

I don’t think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path...

My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general, if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

We are paint streaked runners,deafened by the cries of all the sad people. It’s a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you. Sometimes, you just can’t help but feel like a...

The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony...

She wasn’t tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

… because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I could explain myself in a way that made sense and then maybe one...

If you walk 100 miles into the life you don’t want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get out of that life. This is the answer to why the journey to fulfillment...

You don’t realize – the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I’m not complaining. the more things change,the more they don’t stay the same. Don’t let anyone tell...

As I watch Nicholas make his way back to his truck, I know one thing: this boy is going to make my life very interesting. I feel as if a fragment of the old me...

I am astounded at how long it takes to discover… for the first time,the things I have learned… over and over again all my life.

I am an artist. Any artist knows that their creations, their pieces must express an array of human emotion and experience. From the juvenile and innocent, to the erotic and the dangerous, and everything in...

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn’t yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn’t claim.

And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.

Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in...

A wise man travels to discover himself.

You need to understand your potentials to transform it. look in to Yourself, upwards to God then outwards to your environ

If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the human race,...

If you think you’re good people, and if you are, how would you know? Is it something you always knew? Or was it something you found? Some people are naturally good at it […]. Is...

If four of you are playing hide and seek you’ll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you’re looking for? You are the...

A journey through nature is always a road that leads to self-discovery.

There is a glimmer of metal that wavers between his thighs. He turns to face me. The balls of his large gauge nipple rings catch my eye as they glint in the light of the...

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.

The more positive you think the earlier you will discover opportunities and the easier you will overcome obstacles.

Oh, don’t pull your hand away from me, I’ve promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible narrative I shall understand, oh maybe it will be on Hell’s road that I shall be...

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

There are no ordinary people. The blur or everyday reality has created a world in which most of us have forgotten our unique and sacred existence…it is [our] true self, once discovered, that enables us...

don’t make too much noise”. October’s dust in my lungs, maybe I don’t want bits of four AM lingering in my subconscious. Smokers breathe in fire, coat their insides in ash. Is that suicide or...

Don’t let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you’re meant to be today.

The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The only thing that makes this immense loss tolerable is the discovery of a self you did...

In the beginning, it is difficult and even painful to see the faults in yourself, the flaws in your soul, the error of your ways. But I have come to love the moments when I...

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn’t be torn if the pages all held together.

You’d be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don’t understand your own capacities.

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.

It was so quiet, I could hear my own breathing, loud in my ears. Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again...